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We need to make new articles sometime soon

Somebody should start some articles called the Signals Intelligence Directorate and Research and Development Directorate RDD. I also think a third person should do the Information Assurance Directorate acr. (IAD). Going to need 3 teams to write three types of articles. Be able to distinguish between emblem, seal, and logo.

See *https://electrospaces.blogspot.com/2014/01/nsas-organizational-designations.html which contains twelve additional cited sources. Also see *https://nsa.gov1.info/dni/ which many slideshows. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Personisgaming (talk • contribs) 22:06, 27 June 2019 (UTC)

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The ACLU and the NSA may soon square off in the Supreme Court — over Wikipedia

Include in article?

National Security Agency and American Civil Liberties Union

The ACLU and the NSA may soon square off in the Supreme Court — over Wikipedia - The NSA and the scope of state secrets privilege may be in front of the Supreme Court next term. Source: https://www.grid.news/story/technology/2022/09/27/the-aclu-and-the-nsa-may-soon-square-off-in-the-supreme-court-over-wikipedia/ September 27, 2022

"The Wikimedia Foundation, the organization that runs Wikipedia, last month asked the (Supreme Court) to hear arguments on its lawsuit over the National Security Agency’s warrantless surveillance of Americans’ international phone and email communications. The organization, represented by the American Civil Liberties Union, has been fighting the NSA in court over such “upstream surveillance” for the past seven years." ... "Wikimedia contends that given this surveillance, it cannot ensure the confidentiality of the tens of millions of people who read, edit and communicate about Wikipedia, one of the largest repositories of human information to ever exist."

Aeryn Palmer, legal director of compliance at the Wikimedia Foundation, said...“When we think about what we might be collecting from anyone who visits the site, when we think about how we do research with our readers or with our contributors to better understand what sorts of features they might like to see and how they want the projects to evolve, we’re continually thinking about how we can best protect their privacy,”

May1787 (talk) 12:20, 5 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

"Include in article?" - sure, why not. - wolf 16:52, 5 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Sounds like suitable content. North8000 (talk) 18:44, 5 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Merge proposal

Propose merging National Security Agency academic publications into National Security Agency. The lack of multiple instances of WP:SIGCOV of the academic journals makes the content better contextualized and better fitting on the agency's main page. Longhornsg (talk) 19:00, 20 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Support - The article is short enough to be covered in this article, and short enough to be considered a stub. I suggest we merge Tropwine (talk) 10:20, 13 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Support - I agree with the motives for merging, the other article is very small and could definitely be integrated into this one. Tylermack999 (talk) 15:00, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Neutral I'm neutral on the idea. When it comes to a sub article with boring details which independent sources don't cover, I would never delete an article solely for lack of such. But this looks like it would fit fine into the higher level article. North8000 (talk) 20:05, 20 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Support -- to my knowledge we do not split this out for any other USG agency, and they're lacking sufficient coverage and independent notability to merit individual articles. ⇒SWATJester ^{Shoot Blues, Tell VileRat!} 02:58, 21 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

So it's been open for almost 8 weeks and 4 of the 4 respondents say "let's merge" and so I think that there is a consensus for merging. I don't think that there is a consensus to say "should not be allowed to be an article" but IMO that's a moot point. North8000 (talk) 20:45, 13 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]